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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 26/09/2026

Got the blues because fall is bringing the snake livestreams at RattleCam.org to a close? We made these stickers to cheer you up! Which team are you on? Click Shop on the website to find these beauties.

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 23/09/2026

I'm running an all-day snake safety workshop with rattlesnake handling instruction on Sunday, Oct 25 in beautiful Idyllwild, California. The workshop is geared toward wildlife biologists and is being organized by the Southern California Chapter of the Wildlife Society.

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 21/08/2026

Now is a great time to check out the rattlesnake live-streaming cams! Check out this footage of a mama giving birth throughout the night last night! Watch live at RattleCam.org YouTube link: youtu.be/KozlUcz5jQk

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Wild rattlesnake gives birth over and over during the night!

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Tucker Heptinstall @hippieherper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🚨New Brock Lab Paper🚨 Super excited to see our work investigating how urbanization is shifting microclimates and causing physiological responses in lizards come out in Functional Ecology! Maybe urbanization isn’t all bad? 👀 Check it out! @doc-brock.bsky.social @emilytaylorscience.com

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Urban oases relax desiccation risk for an arid‐adapted lizard

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 19/07/2026

The first rainstorm of the summer arrived at the Colorado rattlesnake den last night, and the snakes came out to drink their fill. Watch to the end for amazing close-up live-streamed footage of a snake drinking rainwater off her back. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Ty...

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Have you seen rattlesnakes drinking rain before?

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 14/07/2026

World Snake Day is this Thursday! You are invited to "attend" an online symposium with presentations about snakes from around the world, courtesy of @savethesnakes.org. I will be giving a presentation about Project RattleCam (around 8am Pacific time).

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/07/2026

Contest alert! Guess the date of the first rattlesnake babies for a chance to win a Snakes Have Families, Too T-shirt. Submit your guess at forms.gle/bKPoScxmiWNJ... by Aug 9, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GpW...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 02/07/2026

Friends- if you haven't checked in on your snake family this year, why not now? Check out RattleCam.org for LIVE VIEWS of three rattlesnake dens, in California, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. The best times to watch is usually late morning. Here is one clip per cam...

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Project Rattlecam | Explore the Secret LIves of Rattlesnakes | Rattlesnake Cam

Join the collaboration between Project Rattlecam, Cal Poly, and Central Coast Snake Services to study and raise awareness about the importance of rattlesnakes in the ecosystem. Discover our mission...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 01/07/2026

32 years since the US last hosted the cup, I am no longer in the stands cheering on our boys and would rather watch at home with the dogs. Some other things have changed, too... 😂 GO USA! I BELIEVE!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 11/03/2026

Right now, thousands of terrified rattlesnakes sit in large drums and boxes in people's garages and in warehouses, piled high and deep, some of them squashed, having been ripped from their winter dens, sometimes after people infused them with gasoline to drive them out. 1/3

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 05/03/2026

I'm heading to LA this weekend to talk HERPS! On Sat at 10am I will be doing a kid-friendly reptile talk and event with Paisley Ramstead at the Rancho Mirage library as part of Desert Wildlife Center Presents SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival. 1/2

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 27/02/2026

WEBINAR TONIGHT on California Amphibians! 7pm PST Pre-register here: syvnature.org/californias-... Photo of California Tiger Salamander by Spencer Riffle

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 26/02/2026

I'm giving a presentation on CALIFORNIA AMPHIBIANS on Friday night at 7pm PST at the Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Ynez, or you can watch the webinar live- info on how to register ahead of time is below. syvnature.org/californias-...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 25/02/2026

Congratulations to Owen Bachhuber for winning first place in the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2026 Student E-Poster Competition, Science in Society category!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 20/02/2026

Who wore it better?? Congratulations, Alysa Liu!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 13/02/2026

Did you know that the California cam started in 2021? Here's some footage of Drogon the male greeting two pregnant females, including Petunia, who we saw again (and pregnant again) in 2023 and 2025. www.Rattlecam.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibB9...

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Big male rattlesnake greets two pregnant females

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/02/2026

This is an amazing way to visualize and zoom in on the tree of life! www.onezoom.org

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/02/2026

Today is my book birthday! This book on California amphibians was utter joy to work on from start to finish. I hope it is half as much fun to read as it was to write. Tonight I have my Amphibian Book Launch Party at a local brewery www.facebook.com/events/16251... ...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 27/01/2026

My new book comes out a week from today, and I'm celebrating with a book launch event at Humdinger Brewing in SLO! I hope to see you locals there. Feb 3 at 6pm. www.facebook.com/events/16251...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 26/01/2026

Throwback to our first introduction to Thor, looking not too happy to get his lips pierced.. by an ant. Thor's lip never completely lost the swelling from this bite, making him easy to identify among piles of other snakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBU4...

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Rattlesnake with ant "lip ring"

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Madi McIntyre @madimc00.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Found some gems in Powell’s Bookstore during SICB in Portland!! @emilytaylorscience.com @powells.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 02/01/2026

One of my favorites from my forthcoming book 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦 - a series of images over several weeks showing a Wandering Salamander mama attending her eggs, and eventually, salamanderlings. ❤ Get your signed book here: www.centralcoastsnakeservices.com/shop.html

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 01/01/2026

Happy 2026 to all. I thought you might enjoy this 1997 photo of me handling my very first rattlesnake, a Prairie Rattlesnake! I much prefer to gaze at them live on the rattlecam. Wishing all of us a very snakey 2026, Emily Taylor Project RattleCam (RattleCam.org) co-founder

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 01/01/2026

I am excited to share my new book, California Amphibians and How To Find Them, hot off the press from Heyday Books and ready to help guide your wet winter frog and salamander adventures! It is available now from my website or Feb 3 at bookstores. www.centralcoastsnakeservices.com/shop.html

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Ayanna Higgins @yannabear820.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Took this photo of this gorgeous Southern Pacifc Rattlesnake in the Marina back in March through binoculars. Not an easy thing to do. It was so sureal seeing this creature in the flesh, I was just in aww. When I heard there was a rattler from a cowork, I went running to it @emilytaylorscience.com

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 09/12/2025

Funded Master's position in Rattlesnake Biology at Cal Poly SLO jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... Please share!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 09/12/2025

𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks! Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 07/12/2025

My lizard book was featured this weekend in the New York Times! If you want a signed copy and a freebie, read on...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 02/12/2025

It's Giving Tuesday! All year long, we give our time, our knowledge, and our joyful determination to help ensure that you can watch rattlesnakes behaving naturally, peacefully, as they actually do at RattleCam.org. 1/2

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 28/11/2025

Black Friday Sale! 🖤🛒🛍️ Support your favorite livestream Project RattleCam and get 20% off merchandise with code Rattlesnake. Discount expires on Sunday. www.CentralCoastSnakeServices.com/shop

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 24/11/2025

Get yer stocking stuffers and holiday gifts here, and benefit our exclusively donor-funded program! The snakes thank you. Use code Rattlesnake in the Shop at Rattlecam.org.

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 19/11/2025

That's a wrap for 2025, folks! Here is some summer footage of huge piles of rattlesnakes to get you dreaming of next summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKyn...

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Baby surfs ocean of adult rattlesnakes

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 15/11/2025

Content warning: baby rattlesnake is eaten by a badger! So far, we have only witnessed baby rattlesnakes being preyed upon, and always when there are no adults around. Adult rattlesnakes definitely get eaten by predators, but we just have not see that on the stream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLUc...

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Badger eats baby rattlesnake!

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 10/11/2025

News of the day: A raccoon came through early this morning and ate the remains of Pansy, 6 days after she died. You can watch it starting at 6:06am at this link, and it goes on for over an hour. youtu.be/y5vKYomHL1o?...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 08/11/2025

The cold weather has arrived! Will we glimpse a snake again this season? Time will tell over the next week or so. Meanwhile, enjoy this video of Pansy (RIP) with a beautiful damselfly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBmT...

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Damsel(fly) In Distress?

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 07/11/2025

Heads up, academic people. The #NSFGRFP letters of recommendation are due at 2pm Pacific time today! Oh, and tell your student applicants, there are new formatting rules buried in the RFP. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 05/11/2025

Throwback to summer squash piles of snakes! Their "armlessness" makes it impossible to swat mosquitoes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8A...

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Mosquitoes drinking rattlesnake blood!

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/11/2025

We can't believe it's November! Weather is rapidly cooling, and the Colorado cam will shut down for the winter in about two weeks. Watch now while you still can! This baby is out right now, cruising around behind vegetation. RattleCam.org

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 31/10/2025

The biology department at Cal Poly is hiring multiple tenure-track positions, including animal physiology! Come work with me in paradise. jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Enjoy this compilation of some of our favorite moments with SPIDERS caught on the livecam this year. 🕷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVCi...

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Spooky Spider Season!

YouTube video by Project RattleCam

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